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Patented May 14, 1867.

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GEORGE SIMPSON AND llOLlilN M. TAYLOR, .U'r" W \TlE BlTRY \"FPMON" IV;ll-

Lrtz'cr-s- Patent No. 64,718, Jute/1' dilly 14, 18 7.

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that We, GEORGE SIMPSON and RoLLIN M. TAYLOR, of the town ofVi'aterbury, in the county of Washington, in the State of Vermont, haveinvented a certian new and useful Apparatus for Counting and RegisteringBilliards; and the following is a full, clear, and exact description ofthe same. reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making apart of this specification, in which- Figure 1 represents a view of theinternal arrangement of mechanism in asectonv cut across the diameter.Figure 2 shows a face view of the dial, numbers, and counting finger,and the game indicator. Figure 3 shows a plan or face view of themechanism for recording the number of games played, by the tallying ofeach game.

Figure 4 shows a broken-off section representing the action of theregistering ot' the game, and the mode of operating signal-bell.

The object of our invention is to introduce a more neat and practicalmethod of counting the points, or keeping tally, in a game of billiards,and at the same time recording the number of games played on each tableby means of the tallying, so that the owners or proprietors of billiardsaloons may detect any fraud attempted by the players or by thoseemployed to take the change and pay for the use of the tables.

Our invention consists in the arrangement and combination of dials withnumbers, hands to indicate, abell to give notice when the game is up,with an internal notched disk, a series of two or more ratchet-wheelswith numbers to record and indicate from one hundred to one hundredthousand, with pawls to operate them as each game is tallied by theplayers or the keeper, so that a true record of the number of gamesplayed is registered in the apparatus, and cannot be put back withoutopening the box and breaking the seal. To enable others to make and as eour invention, we will describe it in detail, referring to the drawingsand Our billiard register may be made of Wood or of metal, in the formof a cloc size, so that the hand or pointer A will beet sufficientstrength to be moved by indicate the points on the dials B will besulficiently legible to be seen on placed or suspended over the table soas to be'as convenient to k ordinary buttons on the rod.

k or watch of any desirable the cue, and the figures wh n both sides,the apparatus being cop the tally on the dials as it is to move the Onone side the; hand or pointer A has nothing to do with thcinternalmechanism, and may be moved either backward or forward to the pointsindicated. On the otl A is attached to an arbor, a, on the inner end ofwhich is spring-finger, has a series of notches, e a e e c,

ier side the hand or pointer C, which rests on a dis 56, which on itsedge, so that the spring-finger C will click into themat eveiy five orten points that is indicated by the pointer A on the dial B, so that itcannot be turned back. When the one hundred points have been tallied onthe straight-side dial, the spring finger G falls into larger, deepernotch in the disk I), and catches a toothfon the large ratchet-wheel D,and moves it one notch or figure, which registers a game, andnt the sametime operates the hammer to strike the bell (Z to give the players orattendant notice that the game is up. On one side of the largeratchet-wheel D are the numbers to correspond with the number of theteeth in the wheel, so that every time the bell is struck there is agame recorded, which numbe may be seen through the glass in the openingE. The large wheel D may record one hundred games or more, according tothe size of the disk. When the wheel D has made one revolution, theprojection 1 on it catches into a cog, 2', on a counter-wheel H, andmoves it one notch or figure on its face, which is also shown in therecordthrough the glass in the opening F, so that hundreds and thousandsof games may be recorded, and by adding other counting-wheels manythousands of games may all be indicated, and the owners or proprietorsof billiardtables may know the number of games that have been played oneach table, should they be absent for months or year". t is anestablished fact that the game of billiards has long been an institutionin most parts of the civilized world, and that it is becoming more andmore popular in tl known fact that there are frauds constantly practisedby those employed to a of knowing the number of games played as kept bythe tally now in use.

Having thus fully described our invention, what we claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The arrangement of the two external dials with movable hands A A, toindicate the points tallied by each player, and the hell to give noticewhen the game is up, in combination with the internal notched disk D,springtinger and pawl C, and a series of ratchet-wheels H I J, havingnumbers to register and indicate tl played, the same being operated inkeeping tl purposes specified.

iis country, and it is also a wellttcnd them, and no possible means togames re tally, substantially in the manner herein described, i'or the(illt). SIMPSON.

it. M. TAYLOR.

Mr C. Srnwiin'r.

